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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
HOG CHOLERA.

For several years there has been a
scorage among the hogs in this and
the surrounding country, known and
called by the name of cholera. 1t is
surprising that such little attention
been payed to this important branch
Of industry, as it is of vital interest to
the farmer [ have noticed one or
two articles in the Gazette in regard to
this matter, and the remedies used
were so wide of the mark, [ shall offer
a few hints in regard to what is ex-
hibited on the post mortem examina-
tion, also the treatment best to assist
nature in recuperating.
To treat disease successfully, it is
first essential that the one applying
the remedy should have some knowl-
edge of the pathology of the disease,
also of the naodus operondi of drugs
According to the report made by the
United States Commissioners on the
topic, debility, emaciation, liberation
Of the intestines with continued fever
are the predominating symptoms. This
improper labelling has led to wild and
erroneous notions, and consequently no
mode of treatment has as yet done
any good. The similarity Of this dis
ease in hogs, and typhoid fever in
human is very striking, and the mode
of dying the same; hence what is
beneficial in one must do good in the
other. This is purely an encentric
fever Of an asthenic nature, and not
cholera The treatment SINE qua non
towards curing this formidable COM
plant, is clearly indicated. Nourish-
ments, stimulents, ana mild tonics.
First Of all, the greatest attention
should be paid to sanitary regulations.
The hog, or hogs, should be supplied
with pure water to which enough car
bolic acid has been added to make
perceptible to taste, as this is a splen-
did anteceptic.
There is nothing better for the
liberated condition of the bowels than
oil Of turpentine suspended in some
mucellaginous mixture, combined with
mild tonics. To all that are interested,
I will say try this mode Of doctoring
your hogs, and I'm satisfied you will
not regret it.-W. S. SPARROW, IN
Washington Gazette.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
CURING GREEN CROPS.

In making hay of peas and oats, cut
and spread in the morning, and get all
the benefit you can from the sun and
wind by frequent stirring till 3 p. M,
when you will draw it into windrows
and two rakings on side Leave it
in this shape till the next day, and
when the dew is off shake out and
keep it stirring till 3 p. M, when it
must be put in good sized cocks, using
pitch fork. Make the heaps high,
small at the bottom and press down
the fodder as you build up. Next
day load these cocks on cart or
wagon and spread on some grass
ground that has been recently cleared,
keep it stirring and begin hauling to
the barn as soon as the first that was
spread will do, which will be soon.
The reason for carting the fodder off
for the final drying, is on account of
the immense amount of moisture the
roots pump out of the stubble.-Farna
and Home
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
VALUE OF EARLY AND LATE
CUT HAY.

Aside from convenience sake or on
account of the weather, the time to
cut grass will be determined by the
comparative value of the hay as shown
by actual feeding tests. Thus expert
ments at the Maine agricultural col
lege farm, continue for two years,
showed that clear timothy harvested
when in bloom could be ranked as 100
for milk producing, while the same
hay cut 20 days later was ranked at
So. In other words, if the early-cut
hay was worth 500 ton for making
milk, the late-cut hay was worth $40.
The report concludes: "The early
hay was harvested when in full bloom,
at just that time when it has generally
been supposed to contain the most
nutriment and to have it's greatest
feeding value, while the late hay was
left until it had attained very unat
tractive appearance yet it produced
quantities of both milk and butter
nearly equal to those furnished by the
lhay from grass in blossom. The
length of time elapsing between the
barly and late harvest was sufficient to
seriously affect the feeding value of
the late hay had it been severely in
tured by ripeness. Had the hay been
led alone, without the addition of
Igrain, the result might have been
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
BATTLEBORO FARMERS CLUB

At the last meeting of this Club the
following proceedings were had
The Committee on Declaration of
Principles recommended the follow
ing, which were adopted without re-
vision
Whereas, It being well-known
fact, that the agricultural, as well as
other industrial occupations in the
United States are, and have been for
several years, in state of general de-
preston, resulting in a general shrink
age OF values of all species of real and
personal property, thereby entailing
loss and failure on the farmers and
many business enterprises directly de-
pendent upon agriculture.
Therefore, we, the members of the
Battleboro Farmers Club, do affirm
and declare to the world =
lst. We believe the cause of this
general depression and shrinkage in
values is traceable to unwise and sell
fish class legislation, whereby the
crafty and scheming designers have
fallen upon the unwary and unsus-
pecting people and have been for sew
eral years Systematically plundering
and robbing them of their goods
under the form of law.
"a, We denounce the present tariff
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
ORGANIZATION THE SECRET OF
SUCCESS. Cc0

It is remarkably strange that every
farmer in the land cannot be induced
to join farmers organization. K
It is strange that every farmer in
Texas does not join the Farmers ALI
ance It is strange that farmers
everywhere do not hail with delight,
the opportunity to unite in well orga-
nized bodies for the betterment of
their condition. Physicians have no
trouble in inducing every doctor in
the land to join the Medical Associa-
ton. Merchants have no trouble In
inducing the merchant to join their
Bankers have no trouble
in organizing. Lawyers have no
trouble in organizing. In fact all
classes are easily organized except the
laboring classes, especially the farmers.
| Who would ever have thought of
the millers organizing They are so
scattered over the country; so far
apart; SO inconveniently situated for
Organization, but they are organized |
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
TO TURN 1T INTO GRASS LAND.

E. P. has three acres of swamp land
in Delaware that has been cleared off
and tile-drained Now he wants to
get in into grass. This cannot be
done satisfactorily without blowing.
The job is worth doing we'll if at all.
Plow. Plow and put in potatoes, cul-
tivating thoroughly, then manure well
after the potatoes are dug, plowing
and narrowing, and then seed down
to clover, herds-grass and redtop, with
little orchard grass. Some Of your
nighbors who have had experience
with similar soil in the same climate
may be able to assist you. We don't
believe in going to the extent you have
on such soil without working the
land thoroughly before seeding to
grass. What such soil wants is to
be plowed up and have the air get
into it.-Fdrna and Home
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
WHAT AN,OLD FARMER SAYS.

This is the advice of an old man
who titled the soil for forty years:
I am an old man, upwards of three
score years, during two score of which
/ have been tiller of the soil. I can
bot say that [ am now, but [ have
been rich and have all that [ need, do
not owe a dollar, have given my chill
dren a good education, and when [ am
dalled away will leave enough to keep
t|he wolf away from the door. My ex-
Perience taught me that
One acre of land well prepared and
well cultivated produces more than
Two which receives only the same
amount of labor used on one.
One acre of clover or grass is worth
two of cotton where nc clover or grass
is raised.
One COW, horse, mule, sheep or hog
well fed is mole profitable than two
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
OUR FARMERS CLUBS.
What our Farmers are Doing and How
the Work of Organizing is
Progressing.
LET ALL THE CLUBS DO LIKEWISE.

LET ALL THE CLUBS DO LIKEWISE.
In response to our call for the ad-
dress of the officers of all the clubs in
the State, Mr.. J. J. Hendren, of Cedar
Run, n c., kindly gives the address
of the secretaries of clubs in Alexander
county as follows:
W. W. league, Bentley, N. G.
G. O. Pierce, Hedrick, N. G.
G. w. Wilson, Taylorsville, N. c..
Let every club in the State send us
the address of it's officers at once It
is important and necessary that the
Secretary of our State Association
may make up complete directory of
the organization.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
HINTS IN THE HAY FIELD.

Cut timothy when the seed is in the
dough that is soon after the bloom is
off, If the weather is good, it can be
cut in the morning, spread out before
noon and hauled in before o'clock.
If cut before blooming, the weight of
the hay is less, but the work of curing
is much more SO, says L. N. Bonham,
of Southern Ohio, in the Rural Nee0
Yorker. A. c. Glidden, of Michigan.
says that if one desires quality for his
own use at the expense Of quantity, he
will begin to cut two or three days
sooner than he who sells his hay by
the ton Curing is very much simpli-
fed when the work is delayed until
much of the water in the plant has
been evaporated by natures processes.
Prof. G. E. Morrow, of the Illinois
agricultural college, remarks on the
slight injury to grass if wet imme-
diately or soon after cutting, and does
not stop moving on account of a
shower. He advocates practice we
like ON many accounts: Being sure
that the following day is going to be
pleasant, NOV in the cool of the late
afternoon or early evening, and haul
in the next afternoon before dew falls,
raking into windrows little while be-
fore loading and making double
"tumbles or rough rolls or cocks for
the enough for good
stiff forkful on each side of the
tumble; y if the pitcher is stout and
ambitious he won't give out on a
pretty big allowance. Waldo +.
Brown, of Ohio, is satisfied with three
hours of bright sunshine for curing
pure timothy hay.-Farm and Home.
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No.. 49,.

different. These tests upon the hay
of two different seasons growth and
harvest correspond in results very
closely to those obtained by Prof.
Sanborn at the New Hampshire
State College when feeding grow
ing steers. While it may be des-
frable that grass be harvested as
boon as possible after blossom
ing, yet it is evident that the haying
season can be considerably extended
Without serious injury to the feeding
Value of the ."-Farm and Home
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
RALEIGH, N. c., JUNE 80, 1887.

kept on the same amount necessary to
keep one we'll
No farmer who buys oats, corn or
wheat, fodder and hay, as rule for
ten years, can keep the sheriff from
his door in the end. 4
The farmer who never reads the pa
pers, sneers at book farming and i'm
provements, always has leaky roof,
poor stock, brokendown fences, and
complains of bad seasons
The farmer who is above his busi-
ness and entrusts it to another to man
age, soon has no business to attend to.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.

Last Saturday Mr.. M. L. Sealy,
formerly of Robson county, n. c.,
but now of Texas, addressed the farm
ers on matters pertaining to their in
terests, and, after making a very prac-
tical speech in their behalf and giving
some statistics of the above order of
which he said there were 100000
members alone in Texas, he proceeded
to organize a lodge here which con-
sisted Of 43 charter members. He
proposes to organize lodges at each
prominent place in the county and
then organize a County Alliance Of
these different lodges at Rockingham.
The Alliance was started in county
in Texas several years ago and then
became a State Alliance, then an Alli-
ance embracing all the cotton belt. -
Farmers, laborers, mechanics, coun-
try school teachers and preachers only
are admitted to neutrality-suspicious.
burg Exchange
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30

as masterpiece of fraud and demand
it's reduction to the requirements Of
the government economically admin
istered \
Sd. We denounce the contraction Of
the currency and the forced resump-
tion Of specie payments coupled with
the secret and underhanded demone-
tization of silver in 1878 as the most
stupendous fraud of the age, whereby
the masses have been robbed, wealth
centered in the hands of the favored
few, who have built up gigantic cor
porations and huge monopolies that
threaten the liberties of our citizens.
4th AS relief from this great op-
preston we demand revision Of our
banking laws whereby productive land
as we'll as government bonds can be
used as basis of our National Bank
issue.
9Th. We demand the full and free
coinage of silver. -
9Th We believe with circulating
medium commensurate with the wants
Of the business requirements Of the
people, that exchanges would be more
rapid, farming would become profta-
BILE, labor would be better paid, manu-
factures would spring up and prosper
without the aid of the present protec-
tive tariff that robs the farmer to en-
rich the manufacturer.
7th. We denounce class legislation
in every manner, shape or form.
9th. We believe that the farmers
throughout the world should organize,
that by organization and cooperation
I'VE can raise agriculture to plane
Ifqual to any of the useful occupations
lbf mankind.
y 9th Like the Psalmist Of old, we
believe that it is good for brethren to
dwell together in unity 1t is like the
precious ointment upon the head, like
the dew Of Hermon that descended
upon the mountains Of Zion, for there
the Lord commanded the blessing for
evermore.
A letter from J. T. Patrick, Com
missioner Of immigration, recommend
ing plan to convert Mount Holly
into a permanent place of State agri
cultural meetings, was read, but no
action was taken on the proposition.
Remarks were then made by Messrs.
G. c. Battle T. P Braswell and others,
in regard to cotton seed oil mill at
Battleboro, and on motion Of the first
named speaker, committee was ap-
pointed to get all necessary informa-
ton on the subject, consider plan of
operation and report at next regular
meeting.
Mr.. D. w. Bulluck then took the
floor and spoke on the Oil Mills. Pass
ing in his remarks to the Declaration
of Principles he dwelt especially upon
the tariff and recommended fight on
the taxation of one article at time as
the practicable road to success. His
talk just suited the time and place,
was rich with the purest wit, yet
convincing in argument based upon the
experience of long and useful life.
The meeting then adjourned to meet
again at Odam's Hall, in this place, on
the I'd Tuesday in July next at the
usual hour.
G.. L. W1MBERLY, President.
w. H. POWELL, Sec'y pro tenn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30

ana JHey nave IHo1i neeJlngS-LranS-
act their business their own
councils and make money by it. They
meet to determine just how much they
will pay the farmer for his wheat, and
they make money out of it. tits true
the farmer does all the work raising
the wheat, and it is his wheat, but the
millers Association sets the price on
it all the same, and then the farmer
exercises his personal liberty by ta
king the price put upon his produce
by some body else, or letting it alone
just as he pleases.
The farmer does all the work
Necessary to raise, gather and prepare
Apr market his crop Of cotton, and
then when he gets it to market he can
take the price set upon it by a COR
poral's guard of bucket-shop gamb-
Ners, or he can exercise his personal
liberty by letting it alone. The farmer
1raises his hogs, fattens them, drives
them to market, and takes the price
set upon them by the "packer," or he
can again use his personal liberty and
drive them back home. The farmers
wife raises chickens, "saves up eggs "
milks the COWS and churns the butter
out of the milk, takes her chickens,
eggs, butter ETC., to market; and
now comes her turn to exercise her
personal liberty. She can take the
price set upon her marketing by the
soft handed grocer, or she can take
her marketing back home and do
without the sugar and coffee she inten-
ded to buy with it. The farmer, should
he accidentally get into difficulty
and be arraigned before the courts Of
the country, can employ lawyer and
pay him the enormous price set upon
such service, or again he can use his
freedom, and let it alone, and perhaps
loose his case III court. And finally,
when the farmer gets sick and sends
for doctor must pay the enormous
price set upon such service by the
medical association, or he can refuse
to employ the doctor and pay such ex-
travagant prices, and lie there and die.
The farmer is very independent indeed!
Isn't he? Well, why? Simply because
all other classes are organized, and the
farmers are not.
Now would it not be the easiest mat
ter in the world for farmers, if they
were properly organized, to set the
price on their farm products. These
the world are compelled to have or go
hungry and without clothes, and this
they cannot do. How easy would it
be for the cotton raisers in this, the
cotton belt of the United States, to set
the price on their cotton if they were
only organized, as they hold in their
hands the great bulk Of the. worlds
cotton supply, but they are not organ
lied, and the bucket-shop gamblers
are, hence they raise the cotton, and
the other fellows set the price on it.
No one seems to call in question that
there is great benefit from proper or
ganization and unity Of action.
It is generally conceded that the
man or men with no competition have
a smooth sea. Where the trades-man
has no competition he sets his own
price on his goods, and where the la
borer has no competition he sets his
own price on his labor These facts
seem to be plain to all men, and acted
upon by all, except farmers. Who
can tell us why.-Mercury?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
SUMMERFIELD, n. c., June 7, '97.

According to previous arrange
ments, the farmers of this township,
Summerfeld, met last Saturday, June
4th, and organized farmers club
with about sixty members. DR.. J.
W. Winchester was elected President,
J. A Haskins President F. W.
Doggett, Treasurer and J. L. Lane
Secretary. An executive committee
was appointed consisting of J. T.
Rhodes, W. H. Case, c.. O. McMichael,
J. M. Burton and L. G. Winchester
The theme for discussion at next
meeting is: How should the ground
be prepared for wheat and turnips.
Five new subscribers were secured
for The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
[ see you ask for the address Of the
officers
J. W. Winchester, President, Scales
vile, N. @.
J. A. Haskins, Vice President, Sum
merfeld, N. @.
F. W. Doggett, Treasurer, Summer
field, N. G.
J. L. Lane, Secretary, Summerfeld,
n. c..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-05
letter From Accotink.

Correspondence OF the Alexandria GAZETTE.
The little village of Accolink witnessed
an assembly of teachers on Saturday last,
the occasion being the Institute for Mount
Vernon District, to which about sixteen
teachers responded. These meetings have
but recently been introduced by Prof Hall,
one to be held in each school district during
the term, and they are a great benefit to
those who attend, Tor this reason Each
study taught in the public schools is dis
cussed ss to the different methods of Impair
ting it to the pupils, thus enabling one TO
make improvements on the old plan, il not
altogether altering it. Compared with 9th
er States, free education in Virginia is, as
yet, in its infancy and scarcely any two
teachers have been educated after the same
fashion; hence there are a variety of meth
DDS. The normal schools and institutes,
held annually, are the means of introducing
more system and uniformity necessary
to success il anything. When one looks
back but few years and sees what
advancement there hes been and is in this
system, it is very encouraging to its advc-
Gates, particularly when one remembers the
bitter prejudice against them at first. And
this prejudice did not end with the school,
but extended itself TO the teacher who was
looked upon as q sort Of target for petty
criticisms. But ell this is thing OF the
past. Many changes for the better have
taken place and the teacher, is now toler-
ated as a necessary evil. 1t seems almost
incredible that the root OF all this growth CT
free education could be traced back to
shoemaker'5 shop in England, ard much
Pound. In English currency we learn that
it takes twenty shillings to make pound
sterling, but history tells US that it took but
one Pound sterling 10 found one ofthe great
est blessings to humauity-the free school
system. K.
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Foreign News.

LONDON, Dec. 5.-The Times comment.
ing on the election Of NJ. Sadi. Carnot to the
presidency of France, says: For the present
The republicans are united and able to show
firm front against moparchist intrgues
and anarchist outbreaks; but NJ. Sad Car.
not holds his position at the mercy of PAL
liamentary vote.
The hearing in the Case of Thomas CAL
Ian. of Lowell, Mass and Miobae! Hark ins,
of Philadelphia, tie alleged dynamiters, was
resumed to day. The public was excluded
from the court room. Evidence was furnish
ed showing that Callan had received letters
signed James Scott, Lowell, Mass, contain
ing bills.
The rate OF discount in the open market
for short and three months bills is 81 per
cent.
Lord Lyons, whose serious illness wasa an
nounced recently, is dead.
PARIS, Dec president Sadi-Carnot at
his reception to the retiring Rouvier Cab:
net, last evening" thanked them for the
patriotic devotion they had shown during
the recent crisis. He said he would not
form Cabinet until after he bad consulted
with presidents of the Senate and Chamber
Of Deputies and the chiefs of tho republican
groups The Journal dea Debats advises the
president to retain the present Ministry
The republican journals advise policy of
appeasement aud concentration. The con-
servalive papers say that such policy
would be lasting success. Thirty candi-
dates for the Senate were nominated in
various departments yesterday. Most of
them were republican.
BERLIN, Dec. 1.-The new Chinese Am
bassador Hung-Suen has arrived here. He
ia accompanied by an imposing suite.
VIENNA. Dec. 5.-Al Austrian and Hun.
garan subjects employed in the Russian
provinces bordering on Galacia and Buko-
vina have been ordered to quit Russian ter.
ritory before January 10.
BERLIN, Dec. 5.--The council of state has
elected M. Gavard, of Geneva, president,
and NJ SCHOOL,, OF Schaffhausen. vce-presi-
dent of Switzerland Both are radicals.
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Result ola Feuh.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5.-The detectives
have learned that the murder of 9 China
man named Lee Wy in Chinatown the other
night was the result of me of those dead
ly fsuda that are carried on by Chinese so
cieties in this country. The Sam Jup Com.
pauy, large aud powerful organization,
which made its own laws for the Chinese be.
longing to it, split sometime ago into two
factions, called the Bo Sin Seer and the Kie
Sin Seer. Some highbinders of the Kie
Sin Seer faction killed two men of the Bo
Sin Seer and the latter faction commission
ed trusty cu;:hroat named Lsong All
Tick to avenge the slaughter of its members
Leong Alb Tick accordingly killed LIE Wy,
who happened to be the frs! Kie Sin Seer
man who came in range of his pistol. Alter
the latter murder party from the Kis Sin
Seer went to the headquarters of the Bo
Seer faction and tearing down the sign over
the door. chopped it to pieces This is con-
sidered The greatest indignity that can be
offered highbndeIs' organization and
can only be wiped out by blood.